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David wrote: On 25 Sep 2005 11:20:40 -0700, "Les" wrote: Yes, cigarettes are bad for your health, but I've not seen any radios of the 50's 60's tube era that were "damaged" by smoke/nicotine. Hammarlund SP-600's and R-390 series receivers were literally covered with a golden brown coating of nicotine and continued to work in spite of it. Cuhulin, you actually need to get an antenna and a real shortwave receiver and then study real hard before you unleash those two peas that rattle around inside your malformed skull. Les Locklear Monitoring since ' 57 Located on the Gulf of Mexico Bendix R-1051B/URR Hallicrafters SX-62A Hammarlund SP-600JX-14 Kiwa Modified Icom R75 RCA CR-88A http://www.hammarlund.info/homepage.html The deposits are bad for switch contacts and deadly on Daven step attenuators used widely in old-fashioned mixing desks. Also very bad on tape heads. Where do you find tape heads and daven step attenuators on a shortwave receiver? Oh, I know that some portables have a tape recorder unit, but I'm talking a "real" shortwave receiver? All of you idiots need to find another hobby or a job that keeps you busier. Les Locklear Monitoring since ' 57 Located on the Gulf of Mexico Bendix R-1051B/URR Hallicrafters SX-62A Hammarlund SP-600JX-14 Kiwa Modified Icom R75 RCA CR-88A http://www.hammarlund.info/homepage.html |
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